Cutty quotes from The Wire

Cutty

[to the Deacon] You hang around and you can see me preach on some young-uns. Solemn left and sanctified right.

Cutty

Game done changed.

Slim Charles

Game's the same, just got more fierce.

Slim Charles

Man, that's him right there in the G35, man.

Cutty

Wearing it retro.

That shit is tight!

Slim Charles

For $130, it better be.

Hell yeah! I'mma get me one of those motherfuckers!

(snort) You must be going to get that Muggsy Bogues, then. Your Mini-Me ass gonna be swimmin' in that Unseld.

Slim Charles

As usual, man, y'all fools are missing my point. That boy came up short on that money last week, and y'all see he out here grinding. So where that money at?

Cutty

You need to look beyond what he drivin' or wearing on his back. That boy got a girlfriend?

He run with this little freak up at the high school.

Cutty

She wearing ice?

She wearing an onion. (high-fives Sapper) That's about all I can remember!

(laughing) Hell yeah.

Cutty

Yo, check out the girl. High school girl with platinum around her neck? Only one place it came from.

Slim Charles

Give my man his thing.

Slim Charles

Sig Sauer. That ain't no Lorcin, dawg.

Cutty

I'm used to revolvers, man. .38 don't jam.

Slim Charles

Don't hold 15, neither.

Cutty

...The game done changed.

Slim Charles

Game the same, just got more fierce.

Avon

How'd it go?

Slim Charles

We got one out of two of the motherfuckers, y'know?

Avon

You mean you motherfuckers come strollin' in here, all walking tall and shit-

Slim Charles

Yo, B. I'm saying man, we was blazing on them dudes, you know what I'm sayin'? Just got in the heat, man. We was blazing, though, it was like-

Avon

Alright, alright, relax, man. I already heard, go sit down. I'm not tweaking behind none of this - that's one less motherfucker that's breathing than there was yesterday, you know what I'm sayin'? So we all good. [to Cutty] But I'm surprised at you though, man. Shit didn't get by you, back when.

Slim Charles

Wasn't my man's fault, man. I unloaded on the young'un too soon, gave him enough room to buck and run, man. I fucked up that shit up myself, y'know-

Cutty

Hold on... it's on me. I had that kid in my sights, close enough to take off his Kangol and half his dome with it... couldn't squeeze the trigger. Couldn't do it, man.

Avon

Hmm. Why not?

Cutty

...Wasn't in me, I guess. You know, whatever it is in you, that lets you flow like you flowing? Do that thang? It ain't in me no more.

Avon

...A'ight. So you done soldiering, but you ain't done; could use you for what you got in your head. We gonna put you on a corner, you could be inside-

Cutty

No, man. I ain't making myself clear... the game ain't in me no more. None of it.

Avon

But you ain't done shit else, y'know what I'm saying? So what you gonna do?

Cutty

I don't know. But it can't be this.

Avon

...A'ight, then. We straight.

Slim Charles

B, he was a man in his time, you know?

Avon

Yeah... he a man today. He a man.

Cutty

I guess what I'm tryin' to say is... not everything comes down to how you carry it in the street. I mean, it do come down to that if you gonna be in the street. But that ain't the only way to be.

Round here it is.

Cutty

Yeah. Round here it is. World is bigger than that, at least, that's what they tell me.

Like... how do you get from here to the rest of the world?

Cutty

I wish I knew.